balle

balle

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of ballen

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• IPA^(key): /bal/

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From Middle French balle from Northern Italian balla (“ball”), from Lombardic *palla, *balla (“ball”), from Proto-Germanic *ballô (“ball”), from Proto-Indo-European *bholn- (“bubble”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to blow, swell, inflate”). Akin to Old High German ballo, bal (“ball”) (German Ballen (“bale”); Ball (“ball”)). More at ball.

balle f (plural balles)

1. (small) ball

   balle de golf

   golf ball

   balle de tennis

   tennis ball

2. bullet
3. (colloquial) franc (French franc), euro

• ballon (larger ball)
• boule, boulette
• pare-balles

From Middle French balle (“large bundle, package”), from Old French bale (“rolled-up bundle, packet of goods”), from Frankish *balla, from Proto-Germanic *ballô (“ball”), from Proto-Indo-European *bholn- (“bubble”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhel- (“to swell, inflate, blow”). Akin to Old High German balo "pack, bale", balla (“ball”), Middle High German bal, balle (“clench, bale, ball”) (German Ballen (“bale”)). More at bale.

balle f (plural balles)

1. bundle of goods, packet tied and held together with string

From Gaulish *balu.

• bale

balle f (uncountable)

1. chaff (inedible casing of a grain seed)

• Nouveau Petit Larousse illustré. Dictionnaire encyclopédique. Paris, Librairie Larousse, 1952, 146th edition

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• “balle” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• Rhymes: -alə

balle

1. First-person singular present of ballen.
2. Imperative singular of ballen.
3. First-person singular subjunctive I of ballen.
4. Third-person singular subjunctive I of ballen.

balle f

1. plural of balla

• bella

balle f (5th declension)

1. ball (old-fashioned spacious, luxurious dancing party)

   balles tērps ― ball dress, clothes

   zaļumu balle ― open-air ball, dancing party

   masku balle ― masquerade (lit. mask ball)

2. (colloquial) a small party, with food and drinks

   vakar pēc sapulces ceplī bijusi īsta balle ― yesterday after the meeting in the kiln there was a real ball

• zaļumballe, zaļumu balle

balle

1. to play with a ball

balle

1. Alternative form of bal

See French balle.

balle f (plural balles)

1. ball (spherical object used in games)
   1. small metal ball used as artillery

• boulet

See French balle.

balle f (plural balles)

1. bundle

Of Germanic origin.

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balle f (plural balles)

1. (Jersey) ball
2. (Jersey) bullet

• balle-à-leunettes (“jack o'lantern”)
• balle dé l'yi (“eyeball”)

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈpalle/

balle

1. inflection of ballat:
   1. first-person dual present indicative
   2. third-person plural past indicative

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaˌle/

balle

1. absolute definite natural masculine form of ball.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaˌle/

balle c

1. (colloquial) penis; shlong
2. (colloquial) testicle, usually in the plural
3. (colloquial, southern Sweden) buttock
4. (colloquial, humorous) balcony